LCDproc is the software used to drive either LCD or VFD Displays on your MythTV Case.

LCDproc consists of a server daemon called LCDd that drives the LCD/VFD, and a collection of client applications tells the server what to display. There are also a collection of driver stubs for different LCD/VFD's. The stubs talk to the driver for your specific display.

Many Home Theater PC Cases now include VFDs from SoundGraph's iMon family of VFD displays. These typically are connected to your system through a USB port.

The Driver for the SoundGrpah iMon comes bundled with the latest LIRC package which most modern Linux distributions will have installers for. The driver name is lirc_imon

Setting up LCDproc

The following assumes your home directory is /home/mythtv and uses the imon VFD driver as an example

You will need the following packages pre-installed on your version of Linux
-GCC, Make, Automake, Autoconf,ncurses, lirc, kernel headers.

First download the source package from LCDproc Website into your home directory
You will now have a directory called lcdproc-0.51. Now lets build the LCDproc package.

# Where can we find the driver modules ?
# IMPORTANT: Make sure to change this setting to reflect your
# specific setup! Otherwise LCDd won't be able to find
# the driver modules and will thus not be able to
# function properly.
# NOTE: Always place a slash as last character !
DriverPath=/home/mythtv/lcd/